Question: was California given a short name in 1874-0-0?
Paraphrase: Is it true that California was given a nickname in 1874-0-0?
SPARQL (Wikidata): SELECT ?obj WHERE { wd:Q99 p:P1813 ?s . ?s ps:P1813 ?obj . ?s pq:P585 ?x filter(contains(YEAR(?x),'1874')) }